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Cranes aren't all visitors notice from the roof of The Radiator, a 36,000-square-foot office building that opens to tenants March 9. It's clear how denser development has radiated from the city center – into OHSU, Northwest Portland, and now to North Williams, where mid-rise buildings are dominating a landscape that once had a huge commercial bakery, small businesses and historic bungalows.

The Metro Regional Travel Options grants program has announced the 18 awardees of $2.1 million in federal transportation funding to benefit communities in the Portland region looking to make it easier to walk, bike, take transit and share rides.

If you have a vision for getting rid of weeds, improving water quality, creating fish and wildlife habitat or restoring nature in the Portland metropolitan area, a Metro Nature in Neighborhoods restoration grant can help get your idea off the ground.

Travelers entering Oregon City on the north end of town are now met by a welcoming gateway leaders have been envisioning for a decade.
As a $4 million renovation of McLoughlin wraps-up, Oregon City leaders are two steps closer to realizing their vision of a long-term enhancement plan for the boulevard throughout the city – with just one step yet to come.

Whether your roots in the region run generations deep or you moved to Oregon last week, you have your own reasons for loving this place – and Metro wants to keep it that way. Help shape the future of the greater Portland region and discover tools, services and places that make life better today.